The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-02-26

| To repeal the law providing for farmers in
stitutes- To amend laws relating TO towns,
cities and villages. 1t provides that any
village may vote for dissolution as an in
eorporated village, and that il the majority
of the votes be for dissolution, within six
| months from date the village board shall
| dispose OF the village property and the
village be dissolved.l Also, providing for
| the appointment OF registrar in probate
| OF Dane County.
MADISON, Feb. 16--A resolution was
adopted authorizing the appointment of
| the commissioner of labor statistics to at
tend the national conference to consult on
| the question OF contract prison labor, and
| to have printed a certain number OF copies
OF the proceedings OF the conference. The
| following bills were passed: Providing for
| the subdivision and plating of lands
owned in seyeralty; to authorize
Joseph Leuervie to construct and
| N aintain dam across the st.
| Croix Rr yer. between the town OF Sterling
snd Minnesota; to Incorporate the city of
juneau; elating TO change of county seats.
| 1T provides that when a county seat shall
| have been established in Cne place for
! period OF fife years or more, and the
county has erected permanent buildings of
| the value OF not less than $4,000, the
same shall not be re1 owed, nor
| shall any application for the removal
| thereof be submitted to a vote OF the
electors OF the county, unless petition is
signed by at least e-half of the freeholders
| Of the eounty;l authorizing justices to
make transcripts OF judgments; making the
| president OF the State University and state
! superin tendent members OF the Board O.
| Regents OF the State University and mem
bers OF the executive committee thereof;
| prohibiting any member OF the city coun-
! Gil OF Milwaukee from holding any other
| city office at the same time he Is member
OF said Council; authorizing the CentraIia
Pulp and Water Power Company to erect
a dam across the Wisconsin River in town
%, section "a, range > east; the memorial
to Congress praying for the protection OF
cattle against pleuro-pneumonia.
MADISON, Feb. 17.-Bills were passed: To
authorize the city of Superior to dredge
and improve st. Louis Bay; to authorize
Erik Alme to construct and maintain a
| ferry across the Mississippi River between
| Wisconsin and the city of Wabasha, Minn.;
| to provide additional employees Tor the
/ Legislature. Under suspension OF the rules,
Senator Pond spoke for the passage oil the
| bill to appropriate $4,000 for constructing
| q monument at Gettysburg. Bill passed.
MADISON, Feb. 1s.-A bill was passed ap-
propriating to Otto Techmer and three
| Others the sum OF S20.25 each, which they
| paid into the state treasury on butchers
| licenses after the law demanding the license
| had been repealed. The bill legalizing TIE
actions OF the county board of Rock Coun-
| ty was concurred in. As the limit fixed for
| the introduction of new business is close at
hand most OF the time was taken up in
| that manner.
Assembly.
MADISON, Feb. 14.-Tks Tomaha-k bills
were returned from the Senate with amend
ments, which the Assembly concurred in.
| The Assembly indefinitely postponed bills
relating TO changes OF place OF trial in civil
| and criminal actions relating to the assess
ment of taxes; to punish the fraudulent
sale of promissory notes; making insanity
| ground for divorce, and the decision OF nine
| Jurors sufficient for verdict. Mr.. Jones
| introduced a bill to make the general rspu-
tation and belief that it is such a house
| sufficient evidence upon which to convict a
| person charged with keeping house OF
| prostitution, and Furnishing the same by
| imprisonment from one to three years in
! the penitentiary.
MADISON, Feb. ia long list OF petit
i tions, memorials and resolutions were Of
fered and referred. Bills were introduced:
Providing that justices OF the supreme
court may, after ten years continuous SER
| wee on the bench, retire, after reaching the
| age OF 10 years, on hall pay; providing that
all candidates for the office of circuit Iadge
shall undergo an examination before the
| !uo3es OF the supreme court Bills passed:
| Permitting justices OF the peace of Bara-
boo TO act IN any part OF that city; per-
| mlttlng complaints OF violations of the
! compulsory education law to De made to
| justice Of the peace instead OF TO school
| director. Making first grade teachers csr-
| tIlcates good for four y ars; second grade
| Tor two years and third grade one year.
! authorizing the appointment Of a proof
reader for the supreme court reporter at
l. n
| levy the earnings to the amount OF $50 Of
| all persons who have to provide for the en-
tire support OF a family; leg CALLING certain
| acts OF Z. z. Larkin, a notary public; legal
| Izing the acts OF the Common Council OF
Milwaukee in changing the name OF Notre
Dame subdivision in the Fourth Ward.
MADISON, Feb. 16.-Bils introduced:
Making il a misdemeanor to collect or at
tempt to collect a sum greater than the
| loan, with 10 per cent. interest per annum
| on loans secured by chattel mortgages and
| bills OF sale; to provide for the organization
| OF iron-mining companies. 1t requires the
| secretary of state to thoroughly investi-
| gate all iron companies seeking to
procure articles OF association and to COM
| pei him to collect $500 from such organi-
zation obtaining the privilege OF operating,
| such money to be used IN making all need
| ful investigations as to whether the com
panies are meritorious. The bill also pro-
| vides general Law to govern the organiza-
/ ton of iron companies; to provide for the
| punishment OF persons issuing bank checks
who have no bank deposits; also, to requ-
| late the retaking OF personal property.
MADISON, Feb 17.-Senate bills we're con-
| Cured in appropriating $1,000 to the
| State Horticultural Society; for the sale OF
| an island in the Mississippi River, IN Grant
| County. Bills were passed: Permitting
| five or more adult persons to form cor
| poration to act as the agent OF any state,
| city or corporation, to deal IN real estate,
| to receive moneys in trust, etc; to increase
the daily fee OF county surveyors from 50
| to So to provide for the collection OF
| highway taxes in villages situated in more
| than one town; tn change the name oil
| the Milwaukee Mechanics Mutual In
surance Company to the Milwaukee Ne
| chanics' Company; exemptng honorabiy
| discharged ex Union soldiers, sailors and
marines from the payment of poll tax; per-
mitting the adoption of a child, by its own
| consent, after having become 2l years OF
/ age; providing for the publication OF 1900
| maps Of the state railroad commissioner;
| requiring $50 OF the money derived from
| the gran ting OF every liquor license in Rock
! County to be devoted to the support oil the
| poor; providing that any bailee who shall
| fraudulently convert to his own use any
/ thattel money or security shall be guilty
| Of larceny.
| MADISON, Feb. 1S.-The Senate bill ap-
propriating S12, 600 to the state commits
| sioners OF fisheries for each Of the years
| 1887 and 1883 wac concurred in. The fol-
| lowing bills passed To amend the char
| ter OF Jefferson; relating to the survival
/ OF actions; relating to the destruction OF
noxious weeds relating to houses of i'll
1 fame; authorizing the city of Beloit to con-
| struct a bridge across Rock River; author
| izing insurance companies to determine the
| length OF the terms OF their officers; relating
| TO officers fees in justices courts; relating